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Jonathan Torres, 19, was fatally shot Wednesday night while sitting on the steps of his Enfield home. Connecticut authorities took multiple suspects into custody in connection with the homicide, the town's first in several years.
(Jonathan Torres / Facebook)

ENFIELD — The shooting death of an Enfield teenager on Wednesday night has been ruled a homicide by police, who have identified the victim as 19-year-old Jonathan Torres and are actively investigating the killing – the town's first in several years.

Enfield police officials did not immediately return phone messages Thursday morning, but multiple news reports indicated Torres was fatally shot outside his Prospect Street home in the Thompsonville section of town just after 9 p.m.

Torres was taken by ambulance to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, where he was pronounced dead. Four suspects were taken into custody for questioning, NBCConnecticut.com reports.

The crime scene at the corner of Prospect and High streets is about 2 miles south of Longmeadow, and some Enfield residents said they were shocked by such violence in the traditionally low-crime community.

"Truly at a loss for words," Kay Moreno, a friend of the victim, posted on her Facebook page. "Weapons are NOT the answer. I'm mortified, better yet disgusted, at what this town has become. ... You had your whole life ahead of you," she said of Torres.

Others described Torres as a good kid who avoided trouble.

"It's crazy because the kid is quiet, he goes to school, he's not violent (and) he doesn't get in trouble," a neighbor told Eyewitness News 3 in Connecticut.

Torres was with family members moments before he died, the Hartford Courant reports. His mother's boyfriend told reporters that the teen was killed just minutes after going outside to sit on the steps of the Prspect Street home.

Law enforcement officials said they stopped a stolen vehicle in Windsor that may be connected to the shooting. All four teenage males in the car were taken into custody for questioning, though none had been charged with murder as of Thursday morning, according to NBC Connecticut.

Material from Eyewitness News 3, the Hartford Courant and NBCConnecticut.com was used in this report.